This project was pretty complex and involved 3 parts: creating the game, creating the videos and audio clips, and then adding the text and the multimedia pieces to complete the book. I’m not sure if this was too much or if it was good, so I would appreciate your honest feedback on the the entire project. Please leave a 3 sentence comment telling me:

What did you think of the entire project? Was it too long or was it good? Did you like developing a book that had many multimedia pieces to it? How did you like using iBooks Author?

What parts of this project were your favorite? What didn’t you like? (Hyperstudio Author Game, building the iBook in iBooks Author, making the video trailer and/or book character with iPads, doing the GarageBand audio recording of part of the book)

On which parts do you think you did your best work? Which part or parts were your weakest? What could you improve next time?

Any suggestions for the teacher on this project? Any other ideas of things to add or remove?

As a part of our Book Shelfies project, students were challenged to create a book trailer video using 2 or more apps. It has been fun to see the different directions that they went in this project. Here are a few outstanding examples of their trailers:

App smash using Toontastic and iMovie apps by Faith. She did an outstanding job using Toontastic to tell the story and then chopping it up into a clever script in an iMovie trailer.

App smash by Isabelle using Puppet Pals, Pickayou, iMovie, and PicCollage apps. Effective use of sound effects and music really add to this movie!

App smash project by D’Juanna using Pickayou, Puppet Pals, Drawing Pad, iMovie, LabelBox, and Labels apps. Love how she created her characters in Pickayou and then colored costumes over them in Drawing Box, then used in Puppet Pals – so creative!

Students, I’ve enjoyed seeing all your creative ideas develop as we worked on the iPads these past few weeks. Please leave me a 3 sentence comment about this part of the Book Shelfies Project. Let me know:

What did you like about working on these app smashing projects?

What new things, apps, skills did you learn through this project?

In which parts of this project do you think you did your best work? What parts do you think you could have done better?

What didn’t you like about this project? What things can the teacher do to improve the project for next year?

As always, this comment is a part of your participation grade for the day! Thanks!

Recently, the middle school students completed quite involved multimedia html5 games based on a book that they have enjoyed reading. They used Hyperstudio Author to create their games. Each game included multiple choice questions with sound effects and images. Students also needed to include multimedia effects such as animations, music, and other effects. Students demonstrated great imagination putting these games together.

I have uploaded some of these games online. (I will keep adding links as games are completed and I have time to convert, test, and upload the games.) Here are links where you can play the games. Note that these games work best on the Safari web browser – they likely may not play correctly in another web browser. Some actions may respond slowly, so give them time!